Online Success;  Repetitious Thinking Can Stifle Success

“I have been trying to make money online for so long now and each time it just ends in failure.  I have been buying one product after another and doing my best to follow everythign I am being taught but for some reason the Success that so many others are having seems to elude me.”  Does that sound familiar to you?  Well maybe it is because there is a bigger underlying problem that is standing in your path that keeps tripping you p along the way to making money on the internet and the online success you desire.

You do remember the world before CD’s and mp3 players don’t you? Well, I guess I’m dating myself, but I remember a device that played music on a flat, black disc that required a little needle to produce music. We called it the record player, or more accurately the phonograph.

We thought it was very sophisticated, especially the automatic record changers. All you had to do was to place a stack of 33 1/3 or 45 rpm records on a slender metal pole and one by one, they would fall down onto the platter. Oh, I know I am bombarding you youngsters out there with technical jargon that perhaps you never heard of. The platter is the revolving platform that turned the record round and round. The stylus, another fancy term for the needle would magically place itself onto the beginning of the record, and with a few odd and sometimes hideous noises…the music would begin to play. Just go to some garage sales and you may see some of these historical oddities going for a dollar or two.

One of the frustrating aspects of the phonograph was the occasional skip. But unlike today’s skipping CD’s, in which you can do nothing but bang the player about in a temper tantrum, a record player could be adjusted to stop repeating itself. By adjusting a dial on the rear of the tone arm, you could balance the stylus so that it put just the right amount of pressure on the record. You could off course just abuse the record and put pressure on it with your finger to make Elvis sing the word Hound Dog repeatedly. But wait, you kids know about that…that’s almost what deejays do with old records to make new mixes, only they manipulate the platter. Well say, we are on the same page after all.

What’s my point on all of this? I almost forgot, but here it is. We sometimes are like those old phonographs. We start thinking certain thoughts, usually negative ones and we play them over and over again in our head. We tell ourselves we are losers, or that other people are to blame for our failings. We rehash old hurts, hover around feelings of inadequacies and brood over past mistakes and missed opportunities.

These constant replays of damaging thoughts will not only diminish ourselves as human beings, but severely damper our chances in any attempt at a home business or advancement in our jobs. How can people forge a new path for themselves, if they are still stuck like a stylus in a record groove? Someone came up with the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Likewise, thinking the same useless thoughts that get us nowhere will not suddenly spring forth a fulfilling life. At some point, we have to grab the controls of our mind and force it to think anew.

Internet Marketing Success begins with a proper mindset

How many times have you thought about your childhood? I’ve noticed that if I begin to think about all the bad things that happened, soon that’s all I can remember. One bad memory leads to another and another. Eventually I was feeling rather sorry for myself until I decided my penurious thinking was nonsense and was making me miserable. I began to force myself to relive happy memories and tried to be more thankful, it didn’t take too long, and my opinion about my past magically lightened.

Some people spend years wallowing in the mud of the past instead of rejoicing in life’s wonderful moments. All of us have our share of heartache…it is part of the human experience, but how we react to it makes all the difference.

Let us all try to recondition are brains to dwell on better ideas, happier thoughts and avoid negative memories. Let’s try to laugh more, love more and use our mental faculties to come up with inspiring and inventive thoughts instead of useless and diminishing ones. I bet we will feel better, those around us will notice a difference and that home based business, you just started will get a kick in the pants. Maybe you can even get out that old phonograph…those old records might just make you feel young again